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The Great Train Robbery.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Locomotive thievery] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.255, [1]. Publisher's mid brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally fine. Bright dust-wrapper, not faded or clipped, with just some light..... More
The Historian. A Novel.
London: Little, Brown, 2005. [Gothic fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 642 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with white titles to spine, and endpapers showing a map of Cold War Europe. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by..... More
The Night Manager.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.443; [5]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £15.99. Signed, with a brief four-line inscription by the author to the title page, dated within a month of..... More
Poems.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1968. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, first edition. Slim octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 24; [6]. Errata slip loosely inserted. Publisher's red quarter morocco over black cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt. Number 104 of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Slightly toned to..... More
Ronnie.
London: Macmillan, 2007. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 358. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £20. Signed "Love Ronnie.07" to title page. Illustrated with four photographic suites. Textblock very lightly toned, binding and wrapper lightly handled with a...... More
Harper and Wilton.
London: Colophon Press, 1996. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 17 [5]. Number 59 of 110 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear. Printed by letterpress on Velin Arches paper. Publisher's brown quarter morocco, with gilt titles to spine..... More
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur.
London: Colophon Press, 2001. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 15 [7]. Letter Z of 26 lettered copies thus, from a total limitation of 157, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear, with a holograph quotation from the text. Printed by..... More
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. [American Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 340 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to a bookplate on the half-title. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter..... More
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